Did you know that there are activities designed to protect your network? Network security is the hardware and software produced to protect the safety of your network and data and enable smooth running of your business. Effective network security creates a protection layer around your data and minimises threats from entering your network. Its components include Anti-virus, VPNs, Firewall etc. These components work together to improve safety and security.
With your company’s network security set up effectively, the risk of legal action due to data theft reduces. It has become an integral part of every business organization and you should select its services according to your business needs. Your business can experience many benefits with network security; apart from it protecting your business’ reputation.
One of the most crucial tasks for any business is minimizing the level of risk for virus, hacker attacks and malware and spyware infection. Risk Mitigation is expensive and can be difficult to achieve on your own. Network security helps reduce costs by designing a network security infrastructure that would be capable of meeting your company’s security requirements and lowering the cost of installation and configuration or hiring or paying an IT consultant to manage security services.
Network slowdown can affect productivity, decrease stability and hence, cut into profits. Therefore, establishing a good network security system would increase network performance and can help your business perform at high efficiency levels at all times. It keeps up with anti-virus, firewalls, patching updates etc, by performing regular Network Health Assessments. This helps the staff, network and the company to be highly productive as a lot of time is saved from recognizing these threats and removing them. Effective security infrastructure recognises threats before they can cause problems to your network, data and stability and fixes these problems faster. They are more proactive and they make sure that there is no drop in the performance levels of the business.
E-mail security is one of the primary benefits of network security. Most viruses exploit the devices through e mails. Network security ensures that your e mails are filtered on the third party network before it is sent to your server. It also provides reporting solutions to monitor overall security status from multiple locations from one reporting interface. Therefore, hiring a managed network security service provider can decrease the stress for management staff as the difficulty of managing a network increases as the network becomes more complex, which would ideally take days to be solved by an IT team.
When you work with a managed network security service, you create the simplest and the most effective way to defend your business against security threats. Protect your business’ reputation which is your biggest asset.
Vijay Bharti is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Senior Vice President of Cyber Security practice at Happiest Minds Technologies. He brings in more than 20 years of experience in the area of IT Security across multiple domains like Identity and Access Management, Data Security, Cloud Security and Infrastructure Security.
His recent work includes building Security Operation Center frameworks (including people, processes and various SIEM technologies) where he is working on building an integrated view of security and ways of leveraging advance analytics and big data innovations for cyber security.
